I’ve never been into Dan and Phil but I did watch Dan Howell’s coming out video, and I’m happy for him.
But here’s the thing. He said some things in that video that are going to piss off a lot of gatekeepers: that he’s most comfortable with queer, that the word he has trauma around is gay, that acephobia is bad, that we should respect microlabels (”mogai labels”). What this means is that there are probably a lot of very angry exclusionists going through all his past activity as we speak to dig up something they can use to discredit him. If he’s had a significant internet presence since 2009, they will find something.
The reason I’m saying this is that you may very well see some extreme and sensationalist accusations about him suddenly coming to light. Before you believe or spread them, you have to find out what the evidence is, what the context was, whether the facts actually support the specific accusations that are being leveled, and whether the op has any motive to fabricate it, exaggerate about what happened, or exclude important details.
We’ve seen this happen to other queer youtubers after they said things that exclusionists didn’t like, and I don’t want to watch it happen again. Be careful.
“look, it’s not like i hid anything, it just never came up!”
“You called yourself out for ‘straighsplaining’“
the whole bi thing goes completely over charles’ head and he keeps getting really aggro like “oh you and jake were real close huh?? too bad, sucker jake is MY best friend!”
everybody else is like “charles no”
at the end john mulaney turns out to be the embezzler they’ve been looking for
But he gets away by throwing a silver money clip with a fifty dollar bill in it in the gutter
We got into a debate in class the other day about Harry and Ginny as an endgame ship (long story, art school is weird) and my teacher made a super good point saying something like
“He didn’t just marry Ginny; he married into the Weasley family. They’ve been his real family for so long that it’s a natural conclusion to his arc.”
Which, like, FUCK, but also conjures the frankly breathtaking mental image of Harry proposing the idea one night at dinner and the ensuing fistfight over which one of the Weasley kids gets to marry him.
Harry: haha so I was thinking about how weird marriage is earlier?? Like, if I married one of you I’d legally be part of the Weasley family by law???? How strange is that???
George, already conjuring a ring: Well all you had to do was ask, Harry
Percy, fighting in the only way he knows how: I can get us the best tax benefits
Charlie, also fighting in the only way he knows how but completely certain he’s going to win:
Ron: nO ONE IS MARRYING MY BEST MATE
Ginny, already rolling up her sleeves: I’ll fight you for him Ronald
This image, though.
The family that fights over Harry stays with Harry.
Ginny has to fight all her siblings off for the right to marry her own boyfriend.
Harry was kidding at the beginning, but it ends with Ginny defeating George in an all out skirmish in the backyard and dramatically proposing to Harry as George stumbles around trying to undo like three jinxes at once, and the completely genuine “Yes” tumbles out of Harry’s mouth before he even has time to think about it.
To this day, George insists he was 100% serious, and always makes a big show about having his heart broken on their engagement anniversary.
